# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
-# 02110-1301, USA.
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
@@ -89,6 +87,9 @@
tar try tar, gnutar, gtar, then tar without non-portable flags
yacc create \`y.tab.[ch]', if possible, from existing .[ch]

+Version suffixes to PROGRAM as well as the prefixes \`gnu-', \`gnu', and
+\`g' are ignored when checking the name.
+
Send bug reports to <bug-automake@xxxxxxx>."
exit $?
;;
@@ -106,15 +107,22 @@

esac

+# normalize program name to check for.
+program=`echo "$1" | sed '
+ s/^gnu-//; t
+ s/^gnu//; t
+ s/^g//; t'`
+
# Now exit if we have it, but it failed. Also exit now if we
# don't have it and --version was passed (most likely to detect
-# the program).
+# the program). This is about non-GNU programs, so use $1 not
+# $program.
case $1 in
- lex|yacc)
+ lex*|yacc*)
# Not GNU programs, they don't have --version.
;;

# If it does not exist, or fails to run (possibly an outdated version),
# try to emulate it.
-case $1 in
+case $program in
aclocal*)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is $msg. You should only need it if
@@ -148,7 +156,7 @@
touch aclocal.m4
;;

- autoconf)
+ autoconf*)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is $msg. You should only need it if
you modified \`${configure_ac}'. You might want to install the
@@ -157,7 +165,7 @@
touch configure
;;